The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-05-18
Vel NEWS NOTES.
Items OF Interest Gathered from Var
Quarters.

post of duty, on the LIST June.
A fire in Nashville on Wednesday NIGHT
destroyed $40, 900 worth of property.
The French crown jewels were sold at
Paris for sos, 900 francs-about 500, 900.
Senator Hawlcy wen West n few DAYS
ago without saying Il word about his Jour.
ncy.
II has been definitely aSccrtaincd that no
volcano has broken out in any part of Ari.
iona. Forest fires caused the alarm.
Fifteen hundred people, mostly Catholics,
welcomed DR.. McGlynn at New Haven,
Connecticut.
Cardinal Gibbons health is said to have
been seriously impaired by his recent trip
to Europe and his labors at the Vatican.
More buildings have been erected in Wal
halla III the past year than in six or more
years previous.
According to Colonel Ingcrsoll, the only
good law that have been passed in 500
years ARE the laws that repeal other laws"
Queen Victoria has in Windsor Castle
three vases valued ut 800, 600 and Scvrcs
dinner service worth $50, 900.
Senator and Mrs. Cameron were among
the sixteen guests at Mrs. Bancroft's dinner
to the President and Mrs. Cleveland.
Mr.. Pulitzer is said to hayc in contempla-
ton the publication of an American paper
in London, whatever that may be.
Louis James, the actor, was one of the
sixty two HOuavcS whom Colonel Ellsworth
drilled and led until shot at Alexandria.
The Mexican officers who recently raised
n disturbance on this side Of the line have
not yet been executed.
Justice Woods, of the United States SUI
prcmc Court, is critically i'll in Washington,
ana his death may occur at any moment.
Judge John ~. Holman, Il brother of the
Great Director, is held up to view by adj
miring friends as the next Governor of In.
diana.
Mayor Hewitt, of New York, wants the
city to receive n royalty of one cent per pas.
sengcr from the street railways that adopt
the cable system.
The Russian Government has prohibited
the sale of Il drama composed by Count
Tolstoi for general circulation and entitled
The powers Of darkness"
Mrs. Grant recently admitted to a friend
that her visit TO Washington was rather Il
melancholy one, owing to the memories
which the familiar scenes evoked.
Mr. Lowell has arrived in London in cX-
cc!lcnt health and begun the work Of dccid.
| ing which of the thousand and one invita-.
: uolS 10 ulllnCr TIC VIII accept.
Stephen w. Dorsey thinks the South.
I west the coming section of the country,
J alike for its natural resources and the health
fulncss of its climate.
: sherman Il Marshall, manufacturers of
: Chicago. have made an assignment to n.
. b. Judah. Liabilities $liS, 600; assets
$25G, 600.
The London Times says that the Govern
mont l,nS Snprtinnn,l tl, Nnu.rDr,Jl,,.
Bait bill. The law will go into operation
in 1850
The lIotclmcn's Mutual Benefit Associa-
ton OF the United States met in Washing.
ton. .rcwitt Wilcox, Of Chicago, was
elected President.
The Peoples Bank, Of G~rccnville, has
made its return, upon which the Secretary
of State has granted them Il charter to
commence business at once.
Ten small buildings, on Magazine street
between Berlin street and Napoleon avenue,
New Orleans, were burned Wednesday.
Loss $4,000.
Gen. Boulangcr's Mobilization bill causes
much uncasincss in Berlin. The North
German Gdzeue says it is Of much greater
, Importance than appears at first sight.
a Melbourne dispatch says that disas.
trous collision occurred Wednesday on the
t Brighton railway. The killed andinjurcd
number II.
, AT Pittsburg, Pa, the Western Mail AS
| ISOLATION met and rcatirmcd the cut rate.
There was Il large attendance, every milf N
the West being represented.
Senator I~Icarst's son, who is running the
San Francisco Er0miHGr for his father,
employs none but Harvard graduates on its
staff.
General Sherman n y he cannot accept
the olllcc Of Commander of the Loyal lie
) glon OF Ohio, because, you sec, | live in
New York and cannot attend its meetings.
; The brave young domestic whose brutal
treatment by the negroes, Turner and Pat
, terSon, SO aroused the people of Louisville,
Ky, n few weeks ago, died from her inju-
t rics.
On Tuesday night n horse kicked over a
lantern in lloyts livery stable at Newton,
: Mass. and started Il conilagratiOn that con
sumcd 81 buildings and caused a loss of
over 500, 600.
One source of Secretary Whitncy's popu,
larity is said to be the fact that he never
keeps caller waiting. Frequently he lcavcS
the dinner table to sec men who gain access
to his house.
The Comptroller of the Currency has ap
pointed Samuel Med. Tate, of Morgan.
town, y. c., to be examiner of the National
Banks in the States of North Carolina and
Virginia.
EX-Congrcssman Barbour, of Virginia,
has come out openly against the administra.
ton, bearing the testimony that "thc next
Democratic nominee should wear the livery
of his party
The will of Eleazcr r.. Slater, who died
near Medina, New York, last week, gives
$500, GOO to missionary societies, divided
between the Synodical Board of Foreign
Missions and the Niagara Presbytery.
Rabbi Ash, who died in New York on
Sunday, was the recognized authority on
the Iaimud and generally regarded rs
the foremost Hebrew thcologian in This
country.
Three thousand people checrcd DR.. Nc.
Glynn's cloqucncc in Boston and then 1850
| of them went to their little homes and dc.